Bangladesh labor low 2015

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Bangladesh Labor Rules- 2015

INTRODUCTION
 The Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006 is a major and comprehensive regulation
regarding industrial relation since independence of Bangladesh. But while
using the Bangladesh labor Act 2006 companies found a lot of limitations,
then Bangladesh labor (amendment) Act 2013 developed by Bangladesh
Government which was in line with the ILO core conventions. Laws
updated but the procedural guideline were missing so the government
stated to enact Bangladesh Labor Rule in 2009. The Bangladesh Labor
Rule 2015 published as gazette in September, 15 2015 with a lot of new
regulations including the safety regulations to regulate the industrial
relation of Bangladesh.

CHAPTER 1
PREMLIMINARY
 Title of the Bangladesh Labor Rules
 important definitions like Contracting organization, Schedule, Premises

CHAPTER 2
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT AND SERVICE
 Submission of the service rules (03)
 Method of approving the service rules (04)
 Special security fund for the workers (17)
 Classification of the workers. (18)
 Giving letter of appointment and identity card and maintaining the
confidentiality (19)
 No owner can appoint any worker without giving the letter of appointment.

CHAPTER 2
(Continued………..)
 Giving letter of appointment and identity card and maintaining the
confidentiality (19)
 Each owner will provide identity card with the photograph to each worker
working in the firm at the costs of the owner as per Form-6.
 If the identity card of the worker is lost, the fresh identity card can be issued
subject to the payment of Tk. 50/-.
 Service book, size and division of information
 Service book will be as per Form-7 and there will be 16 printed pages of
durable paper with hard cover in it.

CHAPTER 2
(Continued………..)
 Workers’ register (23)
 Leave register (24)
 Punishment for the misconduct (29)
 Job certificate (31)
 Certificate of age and competence: (34)
 If any child or adolescent has no birth certificate or school certificate to
prove the age and it is necessary to certify the competence, any registered
physician will give the age and competence certificate as per Form-15 and
the description of such examination will separately been kept in the
register as per Form- 15(a).

CHAPTER 3
APPOINTMENT OF ADOLESCENT WORKER
 Notice regarding the working hours of the adolescents (35)
 Appointing adolescents in dangerous machineries and hazardous
work (36)
 Adolescents can’t be appointed in hazardous work declared by the government
as per the section 39(1) and 40 and the dangerous works mentioned in the
sections 39(3) and 40 and no adolescent can be appointed in the dangerous
operations mentioned in the rule- 68.

CHAPTER 4
PREGNANCY WELFARE BENEFITS
 Responsibilities of the owner and other workers to the pregnant
workers (37)
 Explanation for what leave she is entitled to get (38)
 Notice of pregnancy (39)

CHAPTER 5
HELATH PROTECTION MEASURE
 Removing wastes (40)
 Should be removed in the box with lid as the appropriate measure so that bad
smell or germs can’t be spread from these.
 Washing (41)
 Each working room should be washed, To wash it or make free from germs
with chemicals, solution depending on the situation.
 Ventilation and temperature (45)
 The temperature of each working room of the firm should be kept in a tolerable
limit and there will be windows of sufficient numbers in each room for the
proper ventilation of pure air.

CHAPTER 5
HELATH PROTECTION MEASURE
(Continued……..)
 Arrangement of lighting (49)
 The arrangements of lighting of the workplace of the workers should be at least
350 Lux at the height of 1.0 meter from the floor.
 Drinking water (50)
 As per the section 58, there will be provision of pure drinking water in easily
accessible and suitable place for all workers in each firm and the water should
be stored in a hygienic way.
 Toilet and wash room (50)
 The number, location and cleanliness of the toilets and wash room should be
in accordance with the schedule-2.

CHAPTER 6
SECURITY
 Security of the building, machineries and other structures (53)
 Adopting cautions regarding the fire incident (54)
 Each room of the factory building where more than 20 workers are engaged, there will
be at least two exits in that case and these exits should be located in such way so that
every person can reach with ease and without interruption from the workplace to the exit.
 Fire extinguisher and water supply (55)
 A drum filled with water with the capacity of 200 ltr for each 1000 meter floor area on
each floor of the factory and four empty buckets of red color made of metal with the
capacity of 10 ltr should be kept and maintained.

CHAPTER 6
SECURITY
(Continued……..)
 Warning about the electric danger (58)
 Installation of equipment and rout (59)
 In case of installation of any equipment in any place of the company, the
distance of the equipment from the wall must be at least 1 meter and near the
installed equipment or the row of the equipment at least 1 meter wide passage
must have provided.
 Safety of eye (64)
 Supply of personal safety materials for the workers (67)
 Safety measures and health safety must be arranged in accordance with the
directions of this Rule or the regulations of the concerned govt. department for
the workers who are employed in the procedures of manufacturing processes
that have high risks of physical injury or loss.

CHAPTER 7
SPECIAL REGULATIONS REGARDING HEALTH,
HEALTH RULES AND SAFETY
 Hazardous activities (68)
 Notifying about the accident (69)
 If a person dies due to an accident or if there remains no possibility of him/her attending
the workplace within the next 20 days of the happening, the accident shall be considered
as ‘Fatal’ or ‘Serious’ as per the severity and extent of the losses. Right after the
happening, the Chief Representative of the institute must notify the responsible authority
or institutes through telephone, fax, email or special messenger.
 Register of the accidents and Report of half-yearly accidents (73)
 Notice about occupational diseases and toxicity (74)
 As per Section 82, if the Owner gets informed that the worker has been affected by any
of the diseases that are mentioned in Schedule No. 2, the Owner or the concerned
worker or the representative of the worker shall notify the Inspector about the happening
within the next 24 hours in accordance with the description of Form-29.

CHAPTER 8
WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS
 Equipments of Primary Aid (76)
 As per Section 89(1), At least a Primary Aid Box or Cupboard/Almirah must be
there in each department, section and floor. The box or cupboard must be marked
with Red Crescent or Cross symbol. In addition, there shall be additional
equipments as per the description of sub-section 2, 3 and 4 mentioned below,
based on the number of workers or employees.
 Health Center (78):
 As per the regulations of Section 89(6), if minimum 5000 workers and
employees work in the institute/s that is/are owned by the same Owner, the
Owner of the institute shall establish a Health Center.
 Welfare officer (79)
 If the number of employees in any institute is 500 or more there must be an
able Welfare Officer.

CHAPTER 8
WELFARE ARRANGEMENTS
(Continued………)
 Canteen (87)
 The Owner of the institute where more than 100 (one hundred) workers are
employed shall arrange a canteen for the workers, facilitating adequate space
for minimum 10% of total number of workers.
 Dining Room (92)
 The Dining Room must accommodate at least 15% of total workers. Adequate
number of tables and benches with impervious surface must be arranged in
proportion to the number of workers.
 Rest Room/Guest House and the quality of Dining Room (93)
 Children’s Room (94)
 Introduction of obligatory group insurance policy (94)
 All Owners to whom Section 99 applies shall initiate group insurance policy for
each worker.

CHAPTER 9
WORKING HOURS AND LEAVE
 Daily working hours (99)
 Irrespective of whatever is there in other rules and regulations, the daily working hours of
all adult workers shall be 8 (eight) hours, excluding the time for having meals and the
break period. However, as per the regulation of Section 108, the workers can be made to
work for maximum 10 hours on the condition of giving remuneration for overtime hours.
 Weekly leave of the institute and factory (100)
 As per the regulations of Section 103 and 114, weekly leave of any factory or institute
shall be considered as weekly holiday of it.
 Weekly leaves with compensation/salary (101)
 As per Section 103, if weekly leaves cannot be given to the workers, the due leaves
must be given to them within the next 3 (three) working days. No worker cannot be made
to work for more than 10 (ten) days consecutively without giving him/her the weekly
leave

CHAPTER 9
WORKING HOURS AND LEAVE
(Continued…………)
 Casual and Sick leave (106)
 Annual leave with wage facility (107)
 As per Section 117, in case of calculating the Annual or Earned leave, the presence of
the worker in the workplace for the previous 12 (twelve) months has to be considered.
 Leave Book (108)
 Festival Leave (110)
 Every Owner, having discussion with the Joint Bargaining Representative (if any), shall
fix the leaves of festival for the next year within 31 December of each year, the number
shall not be less than 11 (eleven) days

CHAPTER 10
WAGE AND ITS PAYMENT
 Wage and keeping records of it (111)
 Every factory or institute shall preserve the records of wage payment of all of
workers in order of their sequence in the registry, as per wage time, in
compliance with Form-38.
 Wage calculation method in case of incomplete month (114)
 Deductions for absence from duty (115)
 Advance (117)
 More than two months of estimated wages cannot be disbursed to the workers
in advance in case of giving advance money to them.

CHAPTER 11
WAGE BOARD
 Nomination of the Representatives of workers and the Owner in Wage Board
(121)
 In order to implement Section 138(6), the government, as per Sub-section (2) of that Section,
shall try to nominate Representatives of workers and the Owner in Wage Board, from the
highest representative federations of the workers and the Owner.
 Method of determining minimum wage rate (128)
 The board shall publish recommendation of minimum wage rate through issuing government
gazette so that the parties involved therein can inform about their objections and
recommendations in written form within 14 (fourteen) days of publishing the notice.
 Obligation to pay the minimum wage and publishing the wage rate (133)
 No Owner or Contractor or Management Authority can give less amount of money than the
minimum wage rate declared by law to any worker or employee.

CHAPTER 12
COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES OF THE
WORKERS DUE TO ACCIDENTS
 Review of monthly wage rate payable as compensation due to temporary
disability (134)
 Giving statement of fatal accidents by the Owner (141)
 Treatment of the injured worker (142)

CHAPTER 13
TRADE UNION AND INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIP
 Application for membership of Trade Union (167)
 The worker or employee or Owner or Union or Federation willing to join in any Trade
Union Organization or Federation of Trade Unions or Confederation shall apply for
membership in accordance with Form- 55(a), Form- 55 (b) or, if applicable, Form 55(c).
 Registration fee (173)
 Registration fee of the trade union organization will be as follow which to deposited in the
government treasury through treasury challan, namely:-
Sl.No. Type of trade union organizations Registration Fee
1. Trade Unions 500 / -
2. Industry based trade union federation 1,000 / -
3. National -based Trade Union Federation 3,000 / -
4. National based Trade Union Confederation 5,000 / -

CHAPTER 13
 Collective bargaining agent selection (177)
 According to section 202 sub- section (2) all unions take action for election of collective
bargaining agent (CBA) by selecting election commissioner within not more than 15 days
of the expiration of the period of the collective bargaining agent (CBA).
 If the unions fail to take action under sub-rule (1) labor director or an officer authorized
by him of its own accord or being requested by the management authority or the trade
union will arrange CBA election.
 The Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) office allotment (182)
 the owner will allot an office room for the Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) according to
the organization's infrastructure and at the site in conformity with ventilation and facility
of movement of workers inside and outside the organization.

CHAPTER 13
 Formation of participating committee (183)
 the owner of each company, where at least fifty permanent workers work, will form a
participating committee within 3 months of starting operations.
 The total number of members of the two sides participating in the committee will be less
than 6 and not more than 30.
 Nomination of owner representatives in the participating committee (185)
 Usually the chief executive or chief of the division or branch or welfare officer will be the
representative of the owner on behalf of the organization, and where there is no such
division or branch, acting officer of department or branch or welfare officer will be
representative of the owner on behalf of the organization.

CHAPTER 13
 If there is no trade union in the organization, the election procedure of
worker representatives in participating committee by informing the labor
director (187)
 where there is no trade union or collective bargaining agent (CBA) in that case the
organization will help in the election of worker representative of participating committee
by secret ballot by informing the labor director.
 Election Conduction Committee (188)
 the owner will form an Election Conduction Committee of 3 (three) to 5 (five) members
from the employer and the worker for conducting the election not less than thirty (30)
days prior to the election, and will send a copy thereof to the Director of Labor.

CHAPTER 13
 Officers of participating committee (194)
 Notice and minute of the meeting (195)
 notice of a meeting participating committee to be issued by giving seven days, but 24
hours notice will be issued in the event of an emergency meeting.
 all copies of reports and minutes of meetings of participating committee to be sent to
the organization's chief executive officer, duty officer, collective bargaining agent, each
union having representatives in the committee and Director of Labor for the
implementation of the decisions.
 Duration of activity (197)
 duration of activity will be for a period of 2 (two) years from the date of formation of the
participating committee.

CHAPTER 13
 Facilities of the meetings (199)
 the owner will provide all necessary facilities for the management and the work of
committee meeting.
 Implementation of decisions or recommendations of the participating
committee (201)
 after receiving the recommendation or decision of each meeting of the committee the
owner or the authority take the initiative for implementation and execution of that
decisions or recommendations urgently, and the owner or the authority will inform the
progress of implementation of the decisions or recommendations of the previous
meeting in the next meeting of the participating committee.

CHAPTER 14
DISPUTE DISPOSE, LABOR COURTS, LABOR
APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, LEGAL PROCEDDINGS, etc.
 Filing case in labor court or appeal tribunal (205)
 Nomination of member labor court (206)
 in accordance with article 214 (7) in purposes of appointment of a member for the labor
court government, owners and workers will call the representatives from the owners and
workers of organizations at the national level who are fit and experienced in labor laws.
 Allowance (211)
 any member of the labor court will be paid daily allowance determined by the
Government to participate in court proceedings.

CHAPTER 15
WOKERS TAKING PART IN THE COMPANY'S
PROFIT
 Formation of central fund integrating the buyer and owner in hundred
percent export oriented industrial sector (212)
 Sources of the fund (214)
 0.03% of the total amount against each work order fully export oriented industries
 Eligibility for getting benefits from the fund and use of money (215)
 Procedure of collecting the fund money (217)
 Management of Workers Participation Fund and the Workers Welfare Fund
(227)

CHAPTER 16
PROVIDENT FUND
 Formation of provident fund and the rules (237)
 Eligibility to be a member of provident fund (238)
 Provident fund of any organization established under the law and the rules all employed
in the company regardless of rank, except the owner or partner, or members of the
Board of Directors, minimum for one year, will be members.
 Subscription (250)
 wages of the workers is provided in which way, the payable donation rate will be
determined by calculating on the basis of not less than seven and not more than eight
percent of the monthly original wages.
 Owner’s accounts and statements (253)

CHAPTER 16
PROVIDENT FUND
 Revenue Account (255)
 Member’s account (256)
 Investment of money of the fund (257)
 Nomination of nominee (262)
 Conditions for payment of the fund money (263)
 If termination of any job of any member happens after completing two years of service the
organization, he will receive all his deposited money in his name with the part of the owner.
 Payment of the money of Provident Fund (265)
 Penalty for violation (268)
 Necessity of the provident fund (269)

CHAPTER 17
APPRENTICESHIP
 Giving apprenticeship allowance (340)
 Working hours, leave and closure (341)
 Supply of training materials (342)
 Running and supervision of apprenticeship program (343)
 Shifts of trainees (345)

CHAPTER 18
ADMINISTRATION, INSPECTION, etc
 Duties and responsibilities of the director of labor (350)
 Powers and functions of the inspector (351)

CHAPTER 19
MISCELLANEOUS
 Approval of factory’s layout plan and extension lay-out plan (353)
 Before use, change or expansion of any houses, building or premises as factory,
approval in writing of the inspector general or any officer empowered by him shall be
taken.
 Application for sanction of registration and license for factory, industrial
establishment, commercial firm, commercial bank and insurance firm, shop
and contracting firm (354)
 Schedules
 Forms

MAJOR CHANGES IN
BANGLADESH LABOR RULES 2015
 Employment Policy/Service Rules
 Registration of Manpower supply agency
 Establishment Organogram
 Appointment Letter
 Various Register
 Misconduct and punishment
 Two festival bonuses
 Provident fund elaborated

MAJOR CHANGES IN BANGLADESH LABOR
RULES 2015
Continued……..
 Holiday
 Health and fire safely
 Wages
 Prescribe from for filling case in Labor Court
 Approval of factory plan and any extension

CONCLUSION
 Bangladesh Labor Rules 2015 is one of the most valuable and important standard
and legal requirements that published by Ministry of Labor and Employment. By
implementing those rules by any organization whoever are in line with this legal
requirements can organize, develop, implement, monitor and ensure all the
specified social compliances as well all the other compliance. This is a standard
guideline for any of the organization whoever are thinking positively and seeking
for best practices and initiatives to implement them in their organization. Also this
is a standard guideline that provided by the Government of Bangladesh to ensure
all the compliance requirements and best HR practices in Bangladesh.

If you have any question, you are
requested to ask…………

THANK YOU……..

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